Written by Eruwan Gerry on February 7, 2010
Many new sellers don’t realize how important pricing is when it comes to eBay auctions. Many don’t even realize that ‘pricing’ needs to be done. eBay is an auction site after all! But eBay auctions are not quite the same as the auctions you attend in the offline world. In fact, quite a bit of work goes into determining and setting prices. Essentially, there are only three prices tha...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on January 28, 2010
eBay is a nontraditional way to make money, but one some of the old rules still apply. In particular: do what you love, and your job will be a positive, rewarding experience. Work is so much easier when you enjoy what you're doing. For that reason, it's important for eBay sellers to list items that they actually enjoy selling. How do you know what you'd like to sell before you start listing mer...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on January 7, 2010
Most sellers on eBay do not know the concept or strategy of back end sales to boost their profit on eBay. In a basic term, back end sales is a process where you as a seller offer a follow up product to your customer that purchases an item from you. As an example, let say that you are selling women necklaces on eBay, once a person buys a necklace, you can offer to sell matching earrings to th...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on November 29, 2009
When you sell on eBay, it’s important to know how to take advantage of the kinds of markets you encounter in the different seasons. As a rule, the summer months are slow and the winter period is fast, but there’s more to it than that. It Depends What You’re Selling. Your sales won’t necessarily be slower in the summer than in winter – they might just be different. If you’re selli...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on November 19, 2009
Are you an eBay seller? If you are, are you familiar with eBay’s Turbo Lister program? If you are not, you may want to take the time to familiarize yourself with it, as using eBay’s Turbo Lister program can make selling on eBay as easy as can be. eBay’s Turbo Lister program is a program that is available for download, free of charge on eBay’s website. What is nice about eBay’s Turb...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on November 10, 2009
New eBay retailers are often overwhelmed with all the choices they have to make — what to sell, what to charge, how to list an item. Thankfully, there are numerous tools available to answer those questions. EBay sold the data on every sale they’ve ever made to various companies. Those companies, in turn, created tools to interpret that data and spot trends and patterns in it. According to A...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on October 29, 2009
Obviously, there are thousands of eBay sellers making good money selling good products at good margins, so why aren’t you? Their secret – They Know Where To Get The Products. My secret - find the auction sellers and you’ve found the suppliers. Most sellers are lazy - I know I was. I copied and pasted descriptions of the products straight from my wholesale suppliers website. Took their ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on September 15, 2009
If you know what you're doing, you can quickly find what you're looking for on eBay. Here are a few golden rules. Be specific: If you're searching for the first edition of the original Harry Potter book, you'll get further searching for 'harry potter rowling philosopher's stone first edition' than you will searching for 'harry potter'. You'll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will b...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on July 23, 2009
Going full-time as an eBay seller is living the dream: making a real income, working from home, being your own boss and all the rest of it. It's the promise of a million scams, and it's finally come true - at least for some. What they don't tell you in the success stories, though, is that becoming a full-time eBay seller is by no means for everyone. You really, really ought to try it part-time ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Eruwan Gerry on July 18, 2009
Being a seller is a lot of responsibility, and sometimes you might feel like you're not doing everything you should be. This simple checklist will help you keep on top of things. Have you found out everything you possibly could about your items? Try typing their names into a search engine - you might find out something you didn't know. If someone else is selling the same thing as you, then alwa...
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Eruwan
Gerry
Education Specialist Trained By eBay
